Month: December 2013

Worried about the name and extension of your domain? Discover what may be the most appropriate to the characteristics of your business.

Domain.com?? Domain.in?? Or maybe domain.co.in? Definitely choosing a domain is one of the most important decisions that companies must make when starting their online venture. Each Internet domain is unique, so it is essential to make a good choice thereof, taking into account the characteristics of business. At the end of the day, a domain is more than just a name: it is the basis of the identity of your online business.

The data center or hosting providers offer their users the ability to choose the right extension (.com,.org,.net,.in,.info,.biz,.name,.co.in). For example, the .com and .net are the most widespread in international terms, so that it will be the best option if you intend to reach users around the world.

However, .co.in could be the ideal choice if our business is highly centralized in our country, or if we use it as a supplement to the .com. Meanwhile, other generic extensions such as .Org associated with a corporate website.

If, however, you are looking to create a website focused on information, the .Info will definitely be the most successful. On the other hand, the .Tv is gaining popularity recently because it is a good recommendation for those businesses that offer video content or relating to the world of television.

On the other hand, we must also pay close attention to our domain name. We must first decide whether the domain will include the name of our brand (highly recommended for brands) or, alternatively, a set of keywords that match what our potential clients might search on the Internet. Although some time until Google used to prioritize domains that include keywords, increasingly favors those that include the name of the brand.

Also, a good domain should be short, clear and easy to type. These domains are easier to remember for users and have a greater visual appeal (if you already know best how good brief). In addition, our future visitors should know exactly how to write our domain in the address bar or search engine. Give a doubt in some character could lead to these web had just our competitor.

Although some brands that contain numbers or hyphens in their domains have managed to position itself in the minds of users, these characters can be confusing.

Finally, we can check the availability of the desired domain with dedicated hosting service provider. In the event that the domain you want is already registered, you can review a list of some alternative domains. Furthermore, service provider offers the ability to register multiple domains. This is especially recommended to protect your online identity by registering your business name with different extensions.

Google has finally opened cloud computing Google Compute Engine (GCE) services to all, announced a half years ago. Given the experience in the development of Google’s scalable solutions, services for developers and the largest park in the world of servers, GCE may well compete with EC2. No one will be bad if the two giant competitor will dump. dated the day of the premiere a few amenities:

Reduced prices for instances by 10%;

Support for 16-core instances (up to 104 GB of RAM) for high-performance computing and NoSQL database;

Except Debian and CentOS kernel from Google, now in virtual machines can run FreeBSD or any Linux distributions and kernels with any software, including Docker , FOG , xfs and aufs.

Google promises 24/7 support, 99.95% uptime (with payment of compensation in the event of non-compliance ). Planned engineering works for testing, upgrade servers and software in the GCE cloud hosting services will be made on a special procedure, small portions of servers, c instances in the pre-transfer elsewhere. That is on uptime, it will not affect. Google supports the method of live migration – migration of virtual machines from one physical server to another without stopping the virtual machine and stop services.

in case of hardware failure or other event, the owner of the virtual machine can advance activate automatic reboot ( Automatic Restart ), so that the site will be back online within minutes. Automatic restart is not activated when you turn off the machine manually ( Sudo Shutdown ). Starting today, 60% reduced storage costs (Persistent Disk): 4 cents per gigabyte per month instead of the previous 10 cents. IO operations are now becoming free (included in the cost of hosting). Previous price was 10 cents per million operations. Thus, the cost of hosting 400 GB with a typical load of I / O is reduced by 92% even up to $16 per month. Cost standard instances in all regions is reduced by 10%.